How to make bees out of toilet rolls
Habitat bright ideas with Fleur Thorpe – DIY projects
Before you recycle those old toilet rolls, why not create buzzy bees with them to keep your children amused on a rainy day?
You will need
- Three toilet rolls
- Resene testpot paints in your choice of colours, Fleur used:
- Paintbrush
- Black pipe cleaners (also called Chenille Sticks)
- Google eyes
- Newspaper
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
Instructions
Step 1
Start by painting your toilet rolls with two coats of Resene Pirate Gold. Once this is dry, use a small paintbrush to add four stripes of Resene Black. When this is dry, flatten the toilet roll.
Step 2
Use a stapler to staple the front together. Staple the back as well, but this time insert a short length of black pipe cleaner and staple this in place at the same time. Trim the front and back of the toilet roll at an angle.
Step 3
Cut black pipe cleaners to four lengths of about 12cm long and hot glue three of these to the underside of the toilet roll for legs. Hot glue the fourth length to the head as an antenna and bend this into shape.
Step 4
Cut some wing shapes out of newspaper and hot glue these to the bees back. Bend the legs into shape. Finish by adding two google eyes – Fleur chose a big eye and a little eye for a quirky expression, or you can paint on the eyes using a Resene Black testpot of paint.
Finished project
A close-up of the finished project.
Top tip: For the wings you can recycle any old paper. If it’s not the right colour paint it with a Resene White testpot and allow to dry before cutting into your wing shapes.
Styling and images by Fleur Thorpe. Sep 2021.